{"commentaries":[],"citedBy":{"1":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.21.24.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 21:24","href":"/jhn/21/#v24-westcott","text":"Col. i. 1","snippet":"Compare Col. iv. 3, where there is a corresponding change from the apostolic group (Col. i. 1) to St Paul himself."}],"2":[],"3":[],"4":[],"5":[],"6":[{"id":"henry.JHN.3.19.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 3:19","href":"/jhn/3/#v19-henry","text":"Col. i. 6","snippet":"It is come into all the world (Col. i. 6), and not confined to one corner of it, as the Old-Testament light was."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.17.19.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 17:19","href":"/jhn/17/#v19-westcott","text":"Col. i. 6","snippet":"Comp. a John i; 3 John i ; Col. i. 6 ; Matt. xxii. 16."}],"7":[],"8":[],"9":[],"10":[],"11":[],"12":[],"13":[],"14":[],"15":[{"id":"bengel.JHN.12.31.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 12:31","href":"/jhn/12/#v31-bengel","text":"Col. 1. 15","snippet":"Comp. ch. xiii. 3, “ Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands,” xvi. 11, “The prince of this world is judged ;” Col. 1. 15, “ Having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it (the cross) ;’ Heb. ii. 14, “ Himself likewise took part of the same (flesh), that through death He might destroy …"},{"id":"bengel.JHN.14.9.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 14:9","href":"/jhn/14/#v9-bengel","text":"Col. i. 15","snippet":"See Col. i. 15, note, “ The image of the invisible God.” ... interprets ME NITY IND The Angel who is His face."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.14.9.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 14:9","href":"/jhn/14/#v9-westcott","text":"Col. i. 15","snippet":"Comp. xii. 45, xv. 24 ; Col. i. 15 ; Heb. i. 3."}],"16":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.5.4.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 5:4","href":"/jhn/5/#v4-calvin","text":"Colossians 1:16","snippet":"For this reason the angels are called principalities or powers, (Colossians 1:16;) not that God gives up his power to them, and remains unemployed in heaven, but because, by acting powerfully in them, he magnificently shows and displays his power."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.1.3.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 1:3","href":"/jhn/1/#v3-ryle","text":"Coloss. i. 16","snippet":"(Coloss. i. 16."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.1.3.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 1:3","href":"/jhn/1/#v3-westcott","text":"Col. i. 16, 17","snippet":"Compare the use of in Him, Col. i. 16, 17 ; Acts xvii. 28."}],"17":[{"id":"henry.JHN.1.15.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 1:15","href":"/jhn/1/#v15-henry","text":"Col. i. 17","snippet":"Nay, he was before all things, Col. i. 17."},{"id":"henry.JHN.5.22.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 5:22","href":"/jhn/5/#v22-henry","text":"Col. i. 17","snippet":"All things consist by him, Col. i. 17. 2."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.1.3.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 1:3","href":"/jhn/1/#v3-westcott","text":"Col. i. 16, 17","snippet":"Compare the use of in Him, Col. i. 16, 17 ; Acts xvii. 28."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.6.62.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 6:62","href":"/jhn/6/#v62-westcott","text":"Col. i. 17","snippet":"Compare viii. 58, xvii. 5, 24; Col. i. 17."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.11.25.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 11:25","href":"/jhn/11/#v25-westcott","text":"Col. i. 17","snippet":"St Paul expresses the same double truth when he speaks of the believer as \" living in Christ\" (Rom. vi. 11), and of \"all things consisting in Him\" (Col. i. 17)."}],"18":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.19.41.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 19:41","href":"/jhn/19/#v41-calvin","text":"Colossians 1:18","snippet":"… did not happen by accident, but by an undoubted providence of God, that the body of Christ was buried in a new sepulchre; for although he died as all other men die, still, as he was to be the first-born from the dead, (Colossians 1:18,) and the first-fruits of them that rise, (1 Corinthians 15:20) he had a new sepulcher, in which no person had ever been laid True, Nicodemus and Joseph had a different object in view; for, in consequence of the short …"},{"id":"henry.JHN.8.25.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 8:25","href":"/jhn/8/#v25-henry","text":"Col. i. 18","snippet":"Christ is called Arche—the beginning (Col. i. 18; Rev. i. 8; xxi. 6; iii. 14), and so it agrees with v. 24, I am he."},{"id":"bengel.JHN.17.2.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 17:2","href":"/jhn/17/#v2-bengel","text":"Col. i. 18","snippet":"even as) This clause answers to the former member, glorify, etc. ... power) against the enemy, who had brought into subjection all flesh. Col. i. 18, “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into.the kingdom of His dear Son.” ... etc."}],"19":[{"id":"henry.JHN.5.26.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 5:26","href":"/jhn/5/#v26-henry","text":"Col. i. 19","snippet":"… the original of all natural life and good, being the great Creator, so the Son, as Redeemer, is the original of all spiritual life and good; is that to the church which the Father is to the world; see 1 Cor. viii. 6; Col. i. 19."},{"id":"henry.JHN.16.14-15.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 16:14–15","href":"/jhn/16/#v14-henry","text":"Col. i. 19","snippet":"… happiness which the Father has, he has; as Mediator, all things are delivered to him of the Father (Matt. xi. 27); all that grace and truth which God designed to show us he lodged in the hands of the Lord Jesus, Col. i. 19."}],"20":[{"id":"henry.JHN.6.37.3","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 6:37","href":"/jhn/6/#v37-henry","text":"Col. i. 20","snippet":"Not only all persons, but all things, are gathered together in Christ (Eph. i. 10) and reconciled, Col. i. 20."}],"21":[],"22":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.6.51.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 6:51","href":"/jhn/6/#v51-westcott","text":"Col. i. 22","snippet":"Eph. ii. 14 ff. ; Col. i. 22 ; 1 Pet. iii. 18."}],"23":[],"24":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.15.1.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 15:1","href":"/jhn/15/#v1-westcott","text":"Col. i. 24","snippet":"In this relation He stands even as they do to the Father (Hebr. v. 8), and (in some mysterious sense) He, in His Body, is still under the Father's discipline (comp. Col. i. 24)."}],"25":[],"26":[],"27":[{"id":"henry.JHN.17.26.3","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 17:26","href":"/jhn/17/#v26-henry","text":"Col. i. 27","snippet":"It is Christ in us that is the only hope of glory that will not make us ashamed, Col. i. 27."}],"28":[],"29":[]}}